The main character – philosophy professor Radomir Pavlovic is at the peak of his power when he sets out on that journey – young enough and yet not old enough to understand everything that will befall him on that journey.

During the Nazi-occupied Ustasha regime "NDH" in former Yugoslavia during WWII, little girl Dara is sent to the concentration camp complex Jasenovac in Croatia also known as "Balkan's Auschwitz".